House Majority Leader John Boehner, predicted today that soon after Congress returns to session in Sept, it will pass a law making the U.S. government’s domestic eavesdropping program legal. On Thursday, a federal judge in Detroit ruled that the program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the Bush Administration disagrees with the ruling and has appealed. That appeal will land in Cincinnati, at the U .S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. But Congress may not wait to see what that court decides. They just don’t give a crap about the Constitution and this proves it. If it’s Un-Constitutional, they can pass all the phony laws they want and they will ALL still be Un-Constitutional. The only way these Traitorous Bastards can do it, is to AMEND the Constitution FIRST, so that AFTER the “PROBERLY PASSED AMENDMENT” they can THEN pass, what the "amended Constitution" would now allow. And it don’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure that out ... http://news.enquirer.com

The Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program, rejected by a federal judge, is heading toward an appellate court loaded with the president's own appointees. However, veterans of cases before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals caution that the court's mixed record in a broad range of rulings makes it difficult to predict how it will view the surveillance the administration says is crucial to stopping terrorists. "It is not a foregone conclusion that a conservative-dominated court is going to say, 'Bush did this and we're going to uphold what he wants,'" said Robert A. Sedler, a law professor at Wayne State University. "There are many issues in this case. Conservative judges often have a very strongly libertarian streak." U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled Thursday in Detroit that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional. Soon after, the Justice Department filed notice of appeal with the Cincinnati-based appellate court...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14416571/

A federal judge on Friday said a Ten Commandments monument outside a courthouse can stay, rejecting arguments that it promotes Christianity at the expense of other religions.U.S. District Judge Ronald A. White in Muskogee ruled that Haskell County did not violate the Constitution by erecting the monument. The county did not "overstep the constitutional line demarcating government neutrality toward religion," he wrote.The county argued that the monument outside the Stigler courthouse was part of a historical display that included other monuments recognizing war veterans, the Choctaw Tribe and others. The Ten Commandments monument has the Mayflower Compact etched on the other side. "A significant factor is that someone comes and looks at all the monuments on the lawn, they can't just single out the Ten Commandments monument and say, 'Ah ha!' and that means government is impermissibly endorsing religion," said Kevin Theriot, an attorney for the Haskell County commissioners...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14416522/

Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora has accused Israel of a "naked violation" of the five-day-old ceasefire, after a raid by Israeli commandos deep inside Lebanon. The raid, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, left one Israeli dead and two injured. Israel said it was trying to disrupt the movement of weapons from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah, and insisted the ceasefire was still intact. The operation came hours after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned of a "fragile" situation on the ground. The Israeli raid centred on the village of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbek, some 100km (60 miles) north of the Israeli border. It is the first incident of its kind since the ceasefire came into effect. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5266688.stm

It was intended to be a prank: steal a decoy deer, place it on a country road and watch as motorists swerved to avoid it. It ended with two teenagers suffering serious injuries when their car hit the decoy and rolled into a ditch. When a judge ruled this week that two boys both high school football players can complete the football season before they serve 60-day sentences at a juvenile detention center, it caused a division in this northwest Ohio city. On one side are those who say allowing Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard to play shows that football players get preferential treatment.On the other are those who say either the boys deserve another chance or that they will stay out of trouble if they're part of the team. "I've never seen anything that has been so much an issue in the community," ...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,209452,00.html

Four foreign soldiers and two Afghan security force members were killed Saturday as Afghanistan celebrated its Independence Day amid the bloodiest phase of a Taliban insurgency.Three soldiers with the U.S.-led coalition that is hunting down Taliban and other rebels were killed in the eastern province of Kunar, a coalition spokesman said.He was not able to immediately provide details of the incident in a known Taliban stronghold or the nationalities of the soldiers. Most coalition personnel are from the United States.A soldier with NATO's International Security Assistance Force, known as ISAF, and an Afghan troop were meanwhile killed in a separate clash in the southern province of Uruzgan, a spokesman said.Three other ISAF soldiers were wounded in the fierce battle that erupted after they came across a "large Taliban force," ISAF spokesman Major Scott Lundy said....http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-19-afghanistan_x.htm?csp=34